1. Microbial Communities in Vermiculation Deposits from an Alpine Cave
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Valme Jurado, Jose Luis Gonzalez-Pimentel, Ana Zelia Miller, Bernardo Hermosin, Ilenia M. D’Angeli, Paola Tognini, Jo De Waele, Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI), Jurado, Valme, González Pimentel, José L., Miller, A. Z., Hermosín, Bernardo, D’Angeli, Ilenia M., Waele, J. de, Sáiz-Jiménez, Cesáreo, Jurado V., Gonzalez-Pimentel J.L., Miller A.Z., Hermosin B., D'Angeli I.M., Tognini P., De Waele J., Saiz-Jimenez C., Jurado, Valme [0000-0003-0972-9909], González Pimentel, José L. [0000-0002-9687-3134], Miller, A. Z. [0000-0002-0553-8470], Hermosín, Bernardo [0000-0002-2147-6636], D’Angeli, Ilenia M. [0000-0002-2471-62 36], Waele, J. de [0000-0001-5325-5208], and Sáiz-Jiménez, Cesáreo [0000-0003-0036-670X]
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archaea ,Nitrogen cycle ,03 medical and health sciences ,Altitude ,Cave ,Gammaproteobacteria ,nitrogen cycle ,alpine cave ,Psychrophile ,bacteria ,lcsh:Science ,Betaproteobacteria ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Bacteria ,biology ,030306 microbiology ,Ecology ,Phylum ,Vermiculation deposits ,Glacier ,biology.organism_classification ,Archaea ,Alpine cave ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,lcsh:Q ,vermiculation deposits - Abstract
17 páginas.- 7 figuras.- 4 tablas.- referecias.- The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.586248/full#supplementary-material .- We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)., Morgana Cave is located in Val di Scerscen, Central Italian Alps. The cave opens at an altitude of 2,600 m a.s.l. close to the retreating glacier Vedretto di Scerscen, and its entrance was discovered 30 years ago hidden underneath the glacier. A characteristic of this cave is the occurrence of vermiculation deposits on the walls and ceiling. In general, the composition of the microbial communities in cave vermiculations is relatively unknown and rarely investigated. Here we present the data of a geomicrobiological study of vermiculations from an Alpine cave subjected to extreme climate conditions. The microbial communities were dominated by 13 main phyla of Bacteria, and contained a negligible percentage (, Funding was provided by the Spanish project MINECO CGL2016-75590-P with ERDF funds. The Rotary Club in Sondrio (Italy) also provided funds for sample analysis thanks to C. Mazza, M. Boccardi, and P. Nana, with the Municipality of Lanzada (S. Bardea) and the Istituto Mineralogico Valtellinese (I. Foianini) supporting the cave research project..- We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).
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- 2020
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